For some background information on some of the issues in Web infrastructure,
see the following
problem
statement. To solve these (and other problems) that the Internet
and Web infrastructure face, we would like attendance from researchers and
others with serious experience in the following areas:

Distributed systems and distributed object systems

Network transport and routing

Internet network operations

World Wide Web protocol architecture

We expect this to be the first in a series of meetings.

Some likely discussion topics:

How can we design and engineer the Web to industrial strength, and the same
level of reliability exhibited by telephone systems, but exhibiting better
behavior under peak load than telephone systems?

What requirements does the network itself place on future Web architecture?

The Web presents a major operational load to the network, and management
overhead to network operators. What requirements need to be met to ease the
lives of network operators?

What role does caching play in the Web of the future?

What role does replication of data play in this architecture? For reliability?
For economic geographic distribution of information? How do clients find
the "nearest" copy of information?

Does distributed object technology play a role in this architecture? If so,
how and where?

What role should new Internet technologies (e.g. multi-cast) play in satisfying
these requirements?

Would information from the routing layers of the network allow for finding
"nearby" copies of information efficiently?

Please be sure to reserve a room as soon as possible are secure. Rooms are
hard to come by that week as the 100'th running of the Boston Marathon happens
the Monday of that week.

Travel Time from Meeting: The hotel is approximately a 15 minute taxi ride
(during rush hour) to the meeting site in Cambridge. Please contact Susan
Hardy at the W3C if you have any problems reserving a room.

Unless otherwise arranged, meeting participants must book and pay their own
travel and accommodation. Lunch and coffee will be covered by W3C.

Researchers in the field can participate by invitation. To receive an invitation,
please submit a position statement in HTML, no more than 5K bytes, by April
5 as space is limited. There is no registration fee. Participants are strongly
encouraged to provide position papers on these or closely related topics
in advance of the workshop to be made publicly available via this page on
W3C's Web site. To register, please contact: